Unless bleeding to death, stroke or heart attack do not go to Villages hospital ER. Doctors in ER are contract doctors so are there only 1 day a week, can't find fulltime work and don't care because they will never see you again. Always have an ambulance bring you in or it could be hours till you are seen. We actually saw an elderly gentleman die in his chair while waiting. He had had a heart attack according to his son who was there with him and they had been waiting over 7 hours. We saw his son go up and beg for care for his father many times over the 6 hours we sat there. My husband was finally admitted after waiting over 7 hours. When we finally got to the back we were told to never drive in ourselves but to take an ambulance. Once in a real room, care was excellent, but their ER protocol is sloppy, no triaging of patients. It doesn't matter how many people show up that don't really need to be there, simple triaging of patients would quickly help them figure out who needs immediate care and who doesn't. It's a real shame that they can't get their ER situation improved.
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